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Thesaurus: complementation
the grammatical relation of a word or phrase to a predicate
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Definitions
- n. the word/grammatical">grammatical word/relation">relation of a word or phrase to a predicate
- n. (linguistics) a distribution of related speech sounds or forms in such a way that they only appear in different contexts
- n. the word/grammatical">grammatical word/relation">relation of a word or phrase to a predicate